Remote Economics & Finance Benchmark Specialist - Hourly

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 106.000 - 135.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor is seeking expert economists and finance professionals to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core economics and finance domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring and Question Verification, with responsibilities including rating

Qualifikationen

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Economics, Finance, or a closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level economic theory, quantitative methods, and financial modeling.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Aufgaben

• Author original economics and finance questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear intermediate steps.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.

Kenntnisse

Question authoring

Question verification

Ausbildung

PhD in Economics or Finance

Jobbeschreibung

Mercor is seeking expert economists and finance professionals to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core economics and finance domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring and Question Verification, with responsibilities including rating